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Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine Handbook: Clinical Strategies for High-Acuity Patients, Rapid Deterioration, and Advanced Supportive Care - Couverture souple

Merren, Landon J.; Halvick, Celeste R.; Velland, Owen T.; Norcrest, Amira M.; Calver, Soren L.

 
9798187740482: Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine Handbook: Clinical Strategies for High-Acuity Patients, Rapid Deterioration, and Advanced Supportive Care

Synopsis

A critically ill patient can change course in minutes.

Oxygen needs rise. Blood pressure falls. Urine output decreases. Mental status changes. A treatment that seemed reasonable an hour ago may no longer be enough.

Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine Handbook is built around that clinical reality.

Instead of presenting high-acuity care as a list of separate conditions, this handbook follows the sequence clinicians use when time is limited: recognize deterioration, stabilize immediate threats, identify the likely cause, support failing organs, and reassess every response.

From First Warning Sign to Ongoing Support

Inside this handbook, readers will find practical guidance on:

• Rapid recognition of shock, respiratory failure, sepsis, altered mental status, severe bleeding, metabolic emergencies, and evolving organ dysfunction

• Airway, oxygenation, ventilation, circulation, perfusion, fluid assessment, vasopressor principles, and emergency stabilization priorities

• Clinical strategies for sepsis, septic shock, acute kidney injury, electrolyte disorders, acid-base disturbances, thromboembolic disease, cardiac emergencies, and multiorgan failure

• Monitoring vital signs, urine output, laboratory trends, blood gases, imaging findings, bedside observations, and response to treatment

• Escalation decisions involving urgent consultation, advanced respiratory support, transfer, invasive monitoring, and higher-level care

• Communication, handoffs, family updates, treatment priorities, and transition planning after initial stabilization

Written for medical students, residents, emergency clinicians, hospitalists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and critical-care learners, this handbook is designed to support clearer thinking when the margin for error is small.

Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine Handbook provides a practical framework for managing high-acuity patients with urgency, structure, and disciplined clinical reassessment.

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